There was a time when you could move profits from one year to another by putting on a straddle position say in silver and just before the end of the year liquidated which ever side that had a loss to offset trading profits you had taken during the year. If silver had been moving up then you would cover the short side of the straddle taking a loss. Establish a new short position in another month, then undo the straddle after Jan 1. IRS decided should be marked to the market, left everyone that was doing them with huge tax liabilities. Was not pretty.Originally posted by nitro
Tax straddles?
nitro
Yikes!Originally posted by Dan da Stik
There was a time when you could move profits from one year to another by putting on a straddle position say in silver and just before the end of the year liquidated which ever side that had a loss to offset trading profits you had taken during the year. If silver had been moving up then you would cover the short side of the straddle taking a loss. Establish a new short position in another month, then undo the straddle after Jan 1. IRS decided should be marked to the market, left everyone that was doing them with huge tax liabilities. Was not pretty.
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well, i remember you boasting on another thread how important each millisecond is to your style of trading.Originally posted by metooxx
Trying to figure out what island's telecommunications can support arbitrage trading.